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In USA, there was a program (A1B visas, perhaps?) that allowed a legal form of slavery that skirted taxes.

Originally, at least, a foreign worker could get a job via an A1B visa if no US citizen could be found to fill the position. The solution was to advertise a job with specification that perhaps only a few people in the world could meet - and then, with such specialization - and a relatively crappy salary (to make sure no US citizen with the experience would consider the job). In exchange, the company got a cheap employee who could not change jobs for (at least) three years.

So the company got cheap labor, US employees were cheated out of jobs by what amounted to an imported indentured servant.

The above went on in Chemistry - so it's a good guess it went on all over the tech world

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

This world—the police and armies that defend it, the institutions that constitute it, the architecture that gives it shape, the subjectivities that populate it, the apparatuses that administer its function, the schools that inscribe its ideology, the activism that franticly responds to its crises, the arteries of its circulation and flows, the commodities that define life within it, the communication networks that proliferate it, the information technology that surveils and records it—must be annihilated in every instance, all at once. To shy away from this task, to assure our enemies of our good intentions, is the most crass dishonesty.

Never go full Baedan.

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

i used to call propertarian minarchist libertarians (like you seem to be) "anarchists that haven't run out of excuses yet" - meaning you are a couple of government screw jobs from going over the high wall and joining the dark side (we have cookies)

As for me, I'm post anarchist these days. Government is as inevitable as capitalism, and I can find fault with all of the positive prospects of man, so these days I just play the field I'm on rather than mourn it or even change it. I'm an observer. Less stress, more flexibility to navigate it actually. White knuckling tends to narrow one's field of vision, so @#($ politics

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.